Name: Chicken Stock
Ingredients: 2 leeks, rinsed and coarsely chopped; 3 cloves garlic, not peeled; 1 large carrot, scrubbed and chopped; 3 bay leaves; ½ bunch celery, cut into thirds; 2 onions, not peeled, halved, with 4 whole cloves stuck in them; 1 whole stewing chicken; 2 tablespoons coriander seeds; 1 tablespoon black peppercorns; 1 small bunch fresh thyme; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 3 or 4 pieces of mace; 1 small bunch fresh parsley

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home Made Christmas

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2018

About

Replace the chicken (or the chicken carcass) with the carcass from a pheasant or partridge, for a fowl stock.

Ingredients

1 whole stewing chicken
2 onions, not peeled, halved, with 4 whole cloves stuck in them
½ bunch

Method

Place everything except the sea salt and the ground pepper in a large pot. Pour in 5 to 6 quarts (5 to 6 L) cold water and bring to a boil. Lower the heat. Allow the broth to reduce by half over low heat for 3 hours and carefully skim off the foam from the surface with a skimmer. If you don’t do this, your broth will become cloudy. Let the broth simmer for another 3 hours over very low heat, un

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